Month: July 2003

I love the International Crisis Group. I am constantly impressed with the quality of their research. They have a new report out on Central Asia governments and Islam, that seems to be based on solid sources and impressively detailed. It makes a case that I and most people I know have been arguing for a while – repressive government policies on religion and creating the threat of violent political Islamism, not preventing it. There is also a slightly older report on Hizb-u-Tahrir, that I have not yet read.

I have, by the way, now read the WHO health observatory document referred to in my last post. It is a nice little summary of the health systems of Central Asia and their major problems, but it’s short on detail and based on government numbers.

A WHO document on health care in Central Asia. I haven’t looked at it yet, but I was at one of the meetings that gathered info for it.

A WHO document on health care in Central Asia. I haven’t looked at it yet, but I was at one of the meetings that gathered info for it.

A WHO document on health care in Central Asia. I haven’t looked at it yet, but I was at one of the meetings that gathered info for it.

A couple of interesting summaries from id21: young people and sexual health in Nicaragua and community participation and sexual health in South Africa. The first article has no real surprises in it – just a nice overview of some classic adolescent health issues. The second has an unexpected finding – people participating in voluntary saving and social clubs were more likely to have casual, unsafe sex, to consume alcohol and to be HIV positive.

Medecins Sans Frontieres continues to impress me, this time by participating in the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.

A couple of interesting summaries from id21: young people and sexual health in Nicaragua and community participation and sexual health in South Africa. The first article has no real surprises in it – just a nice overview of some classic adolescent health issues. The second has an unexpected finding – people participating in voluntary saving and social clubs were more likely to have casual, unsafe sex, to consume alcohol and to be HIV positive.

Medecins Sans Frontieres continues to impress me, this time by participating in the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.

A couple of interesting summaries from id21: young people and sexual health in Nicaragua and community participation and sexual health in South Africa. The first article has no real surprises in it – just a nice overview of some classic adolescent health issues. The second has an unexpected finding – people participating in voluntary saving and social clubs were more likely to have casual, unsafe sex, to consume alcohol and to be HIV positive.

Medecins Sans Frontieres continues to impress me, this time by participating in the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.